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Oxygen and CO2 were evolved from humidified Martian soil in the gas exchange experiment on Viking Lander 1. Small changes in N2 gas were recorded. A model of the morphology and a hypothesis of the mechanistics of the Martian surface are proposed.
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Oyama, V., Berdahl, B. & Carle, G. Preliminary findings of the Viking gas exchange experiment and a model for Martian surface chemistry. Nature 265, 110–114 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/265110a0
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